Spent some time this morning playing a game with the family:

Just a quick synopsis/refresher - you get a little car that you move around the board, you get kids, a house, buy insurance, follow a career path, and when you retire, you see all of your accumulated “Life Cards” which have all sorts of accomplishments on them and monetary values that you add up to see who wins the game.

I got the most cards, and won the game, when I started reading off the cards I noticed a pattern. Here were my accomplishments:

• Invent New Ice Cream Flavor
• Build a Better Mousetrap
• Cure the Common Cold
• Open Health Food Chain
• Save Endangered Species
• Humanitarian Award
• Find New Energy Source
• Discover New Planet
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Nobel Peace Prize

So naturally the first thing out of my mouth was, “Hey! I finished the game as Al Gore!”

I’m thinking of replacing the LIFE cards in the game with my own. Cards like, “Shut Down the UN”, “Righteous Shooting”, “Wipe Out Islamofascism”, “Give the Palestinians a State - In Antarctica”, and “Repeal Jersey Gun Laws”.

Gotta raise my kid right, you know.